Debian bug report logs - #1775, boring messages

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Subject: Bug#1775: popclient delivery failure (was: Re: MTA problem)
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Popclient fails to deliver mail with lines containing only a single dot.
When delivering mail to a user's mailbox, popclient uses sendmail,
the problem goes away when smail is invoked as rmail.


Matthew Swift writes:
>popclient; should I send a bug report?
did that, as you can see

-- Siggy (the middle S.)

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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Bernd S. Brentrup <bsb@uni-muenster.de>
Subject: Bug#1775: Acknowledgement (was: popclient delivery failure (was: Re: MTA problem))
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Subject: Bug#1775: popclient delivery failure (was: Re: MTA problem)
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Bernd S. Brentrup writes ("Bug#1775: popclient delivery failure (was: Re: MTA problem)"):
> Popclient fails to deliver mail with lines containing only a single dot.
> When delivering mail to a user's mailbox, popclient uses sendmail,
> the problem goes away when smail is invoked as rmail.

popclient (and almost everything else) should invoke sendmail with the
`-i' or `-oi' option.  From the manpage smail(5):

       -i or -oi
              Do  not  allow a single `.' to end an incoming mes-
              sage.  Otherwise, a dot on a line  by  itself  will
              end  a  message.   This  is the default if smail is
              invoked as rmail.

This is less than helpful about what the default is when invoked as
/usr/sbin/sendmail, but - following sendmail's lead - the answer is
that a `.' on a line of its own ends the message.

Ian.

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Popclient fails to deliver mail with lines containing only a single dot.
When delivering mail to a user's mailbox, popclient uses sendmail,
the problem goes away when smail is invoked as rmail.


Matthew Swift writes:
>popclient; should I send a bug report?
did that, as you can see

-- Siggy (the middle S.)

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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Bernd S. Brentrup <bsb@uni-muenster.de>
Subject: Bug#1775 acknowledged by developer (was: popclient delivery failure (was: Re: MTA problem))
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